ASRock has recently launched its first high-end motherboard, the 4Core1600P35-WiFi+ adopting Intel's P35 chipset. Although the P35 will only support up to 1333MHz FSB officially, ASRock has enabled support for up to 1600MHz. In addition to solid capacitors and overclock control software, the motherboard features the Realtek ALC890 chip for sound, and also built-in IEEE 802.11g. ASRock is also planning to soon launch motherboards adopting NVIDIA's nForce 650i and 680i chipsets, according to the company. Finally, the board supports Dual Channel DDR3 1333/1066/800 (2x DIMM slots) and Dual Channel DDR2 1066/800/667 (4x DIMM slots) memory.

Pretty spicy for asrock.I love the sata connector right near the back of the board tho'

I wonder what wi-fi chip its using and how good it is.

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its not for a 'sata' its for an E-sata - the mobo probably comes with an E-sata expansion bracket

if you think about things a little more logically, it sucks having to drag a sata cable right from the back of the mobo to the front making a mess. now its simple & easy with less cable clutter & possibly save a few cents/pennies but making the E-sata cable a little shorter so it doesnt have to stretch the full length of your mobo - it might be a small saving but meh, no matter how little the saving at least its a saving

Asrock really isn't bad but sure they aren't the greatest. So your saying you would take a 1333/1066 FSB rated non crossfire/SLi DDR2 only Asus over a 1600/1333 Crossfire/SLi enabled DDR2 & DDR3 Asrock?

I´ve got two x1 cards. One for Wireless-Lan and one for TV.
They are currently using up the second and third x16 Slot of my Bad Axe.

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Well the board does have Wifi built in so you would be ok with it. (although I have no idea how good the onboard wifi would be of course).

The board does look quite nice and as long as they include voltage control it should overclock reasonably well. (my old dual vsata that is not in my parents pc took my E4300 up to 2.4ghz (and a celeron D 356 up to 4.3ghz) but it could go no further due to a lack of voltage adjustments.)

I think it will be one of those boards that will be a good all rounder, reasonable overclocking features, decent specs/ on board features, nice addition of DDR2 and DDR3 support and all for a decent price.